Stars Making Progress On Leading Scorers' Contract
There are still plenty of talented players waiting on a contract, but there is one player who stands above the rest. Dallas Stars winger Jason Robertson. He's coming off the best season of his career scoring 41 goals and 79 points in 74 games last season. He finished 13th in Hart Trophy voting in his sophomore season.
After signing Jake Oettinger recently, the Stars now sit with about $6.3M in available cap space, though that number is a bit misleading as it represents a 22-man roster with Anton Khudobin�s entire cap hit; he or Scott Wedgewood can be sent down to the minors to open up some extra room.
It sounds like the Stars might be using all of that space to get a deal done with Robertson, as Elliotte Friedman of Sportsnet expects the eventual contract to come in around where Mathew Barzal (3 x $7.0MM) and Elias Pettersson (3 x $7.35MM) ended up on their own bridge deals.
While some may expect a long-term deal, Friedman doesn't believe that's what will happen:
The 39th pick in 2017, has been rock solid in his two seasons in Dallas. scoring 58 goals and 125 points in 128 career games. His 11 game-winning tallies in 2021-22 led the entire league.
A three-year term would link up Robertson with some expiring deals in Dallas, including captain Jamie Benn's $9.5MM AAV, Esa Lindell's $5.8MM, and Ryan Suter's $3.65MM. At that point, when he and Oettinger need long-term extensions, there will be a few more dollars available.
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| 3 years x $7 million AAV | 25 | 43.1 % |
| 5 years x $8 Million AAV | 22 | 37.9 % |
| 7 years x $9 million AAV | 11 | 19 % |
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